Desert Island Discs

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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

#190 US · Society & Culture 2048 recordings 17 h 1978 → today Weekly updated yesterday
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All episodes

561–580 of 2048
Damien Hirst May 12, 2013
Sir Sydney Kentridge Mar 31, 2013
Jasvinder Sanghera Mar 24, 2013
Julie Goodyear Mar 17, 2013
David Almond Mar 10, 2013
Rankin Mar 3, 2013
Uta Frith Feb 24, 2013
Jonathan Agnew Feb 17, 2013
Julie Burchill Feb 10, 2013
Sir Terry Leahy Feb 3, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi Jan 27, 2013
Beryl Vertue Jan 20, 2013
Martin Carthy Jan 13, 2013
Sir Howard Stringer Jan 6, 2013
Anya Hindmarch Dec 30, 2012
Dawn French Dec 23, 2012
Sister Wendy Beckett Dec 16, 2012
Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP Dec 9, 2012
Dustin Hoffman Dec 2, 2012
Edmund de Waal Nov 25, 2012
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Charts

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#190 Society & Culture · United States

🇮🇪 #2 · 🇬🇧 #2 · 🇳🇿 #5 · 🇿🇦 #12 · 🇦🇺 #16 · 🇮🇩 #23 · 🇫🇮 #38 · 🇮🇳 #41 · 🇰🇷 #42 · 🇦🇷 #48 · +20 more

charted in 31 countriesFull rankings →

Activity

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8 episodes · last 30 days · avg 40 min

Sun 38Sat 7Fri 2

Episodes per week over the last six months.

About

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Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr RSS Apple Spotify

Rankings

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As of 2026-09-26, Desert Island Discs ranks #162 on the Spotify charts and #64 on Apple Podcasts in the United Kingdom, and appears on charts in 4 countries.

Ranking over time

Overall chart position, last 90 days · lower is better

Where it charts

Current overall position by country · categories in 🇬🇧 United Kingdom as of 2026-09-26

🇬🇧 United Kingdom #64 🇮🇪 Ireland #66 🇳🇿 New Zealand #86 🇿🇦 South Africa #181 Society & Culture #6 Apple Society & Culture #21 Spotify Trending #197 Spotify
Chart records
First charted2025-08-20
Best ever#12 on Apple Podcasts (Ireland) · 2026-04-06
Days on chart382
Countries now4
CategoriesSociety & Culture · Society & Culture · Trending

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